It's a bit of a misnomer really. They are not loading screens in the traditional sense. They're just doing level streaming and the elevator ride is needed to delay things to give the engine time to actually load stuff in, so they are loading screens in a very real sense.
A bunch of the bugs that the game had when it first came out was due to mishandling of level streaming and a broken version of viewport culling.
I've seen no clip videos of the train stations in 2077 and the elevators top and bottom do not line up. Also the platforms themselves are incredibly small.
It's a shame they didn't bother to make the train network really work. Especially when GTA IV had functional trains a decade earlier.
You know what you are absolutely right — Organisations are indeed falling for what is known as the doorman fallacy: reducing rich and complex human roles to a single task and replacing people with AI. This overlooks the nuanced interactions and adaptability humans bring to their work.
If it worked the way that it does in sci-fi I'd have no problem with it. If it could give us cures for cancer and reactionless drives everyone would be happy.
But it doesn't work like that and if they keep going along the lines of Large Language Models it'll never work like that. AI as it is right now is a barely functional toy that is being misused by virtually everyone and major businesses alike.
I am perfectly happy for AI research to continue but they need to be realistic about its capabilities and be honest about their valuations of companies. AI research should still be at the level of "in the lab", it is definitely not a product that should be commercially available yet.
The thing is if space-based manufacturing became the norm then it would cease to be impractical to implement regulations and oversight. The reason it's difficult to do now is because getting to spaces difficult, but for space-based manufacturing to be feasible that problem already has to be solved.
I'm just confused about what products can be manufactured completely autonomously, in a 0G environment, and are profitable enough to make space-based manufacture economical.
It's only Chicago style if it's made in the Chicago region of France. Otherwise it's just Domino's.
I haven't heard of anything on the list until we get to 8, and I only recognise the name I have no idea what the gameplay is like.
I've heard of four of the games on the list and it's the four you would think.
Probably Pavlov it's basically just CoD multiplayer, plus a less janky Gary's Mod, in VR. I've just check my stats and I have months worth of play time. It's also a hell of a workout.
The trailers on the steam page don't really do it justice. It's mostly about the community.
If you're into racing there's also Gran Turismo, I'm pretty sure Euro truck / American truck simulator also supports VR, as of course does Elite Dangerous and if you're prepared to buy into it Star Citizen.
There's also loads and loads of indie games but I don't really know about those because my VR experience has been exclusively PlayStation limited, where those titles are not available. But I do know that ultra wings is extremely good because I've played it on a friend's headset.
I normally wouldn't say I was particularly interested in the VR chat style community playroom thing either but I had a lot of fun with Rec Room which is essentially the same thing but is available on PlayStation. The problem with those games is they tend to have a lot of kids in them who shouldn't really be in there since most of those games are 18 plus. But I take the view that if they're in there, then they're fair play, and you can just shoot them if they're being annoying.
Oh and there's a dungeons and dragons simulator which is very good. If you're into dungeons and dragons. Oh and loads of poker games.
Sorry this is a bit rambly, I just keep thinking of titles I've played over the years.
The thing about VR games is they don't tend to get huge advertising budgets because it's still quite a niche market so it looks like there isn't really a lot of options. But if you actually have a look on the VR page there's loads. There's even quite a good VR MMO who's name I can't quite remember, but that's quite good, if kind of dated looking.
I mean. I've used AI to write my job mandated end of year self assessment report. I don't care about this, it's not like they'll give me a pay rise so I'm not putting effort into it.
The AI says I've lead a project related to windows 11 updates. I haven't but it looks accurate and no one else will be able to dell it's fake.
So I guess the reason is they are using the AI to talk about subjects they can't fact check. So it looks accurate.
The most annoying email to receive, the one that shouldn't exist.
"That's not how approvals work Karen, you need to open a ticket. Like the last time I told you this."